Feminism and Feminity: Women in Premchand's Fiction

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efforts were strongly imbued with this social commitment, which perhaps found its best expression in the manner in which he treated the problems of women in his fiction. In doing so he marked a definite break with the earlier literary tradition which placed women within the parameters of romantic chronicles. In contrast to the earlier tradition, Premchand conceived a new image of woman in the context of the changes taking place in Indian society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the process, the ’persecuted maiden’ emerged as a social being, a living critique of the male world, with a